Improvement in clothes-driers



GABRIEL v'Fl-:LIX Gouw.

Improvement in Clothes Driers.

N0. 120,719, Patented NovI 7,1871.

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PATENT @Prion GABRIEL FELIX COU'IY, OE PARIS, FRANCE.

IMPROVEMENT IN CLO'THES-DRIERS.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 120,719, dated November 7, 1871.

vented a new and useful Improvement in RacksV for Drying Clothes; and I do hereby declare that the following specification, taken in connection with the drawing making a part of the same, is a full, clear, and exact description thereo My invention resides in so constructing a rack suitable for holding clothing to be dried that it can be conveniently attached to the pipe of a stove, and also in the further construction which allows the rack when not'in use to be folded, so as to occupy but little space.

In the drawing, A represents the pipe of a stove. rIhe clothes-rack consists of a band or strap, a, of metal in two parts, either hinged together or united by a iiexible loop, b, so that the two parts composing the strap can be opened for the purpose of applying the clothes-rack to or removing it from a stove-pipe. Each member ofthe strap should havefits end turned outward to form an ear, and these ears should be furnished with a screw and thumb-piece, 0,. for tightening the strap against the pipe. This part of the-structure, therefore, consists simply of a clamp. At convenient distances apart short arms, d, project radially from the surface of the clamp, and to these arms bars e are hinged, which bars are free to be raised, so that their ends will rest against the pipe, but are prevented from dropping below the horizontal plane by knuckles in the joints. The outer vends ofthe bars e may be furnished with eyes f, for the insertion of Wire rods g, `or a cord.

When the apparatus is to be used for holding clothes to be dried by the heat of the stove-pipe Witnesses A. J. UUsHINe,

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